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Map: Florence Drenched Thousands of North Carolina CAFOs and Animal Waste Pits
White House Strikes Discussion of Impacts of Climate Change on Children’s Health from Draft EPA Rule
The White House removed key language documenting the heightened risks climate change presents to children from a draft EPA proposal to repeal a rule to reduce heat-trapping chemicals leaking into the...
Congress Passes Measure To Dramatically Restrict Major Source of PFAS Contamination in Drinking Water
Congress passed legislation Wednesday that will give commercial airports the option to switch to firefighting foams that do not include the highly toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS.
After Axing Key Science Office, Trump Puts Ex-Koch Exec in Charge of Research at EPA
The Trump administration has tapped a longtime chemical and fossil fuel industry executive, who most recently worked for the ultraconservative Koch brothers, to head the scientific research arm of the...
FDA Glyphosate Testing Conspicuously Skips Oats, Wheat Products
The Food and Drug Administration failed to include oats and wheat products in its glyphosate testing program, leaving Americans largely in the dark about their exposure through food to the active...
EWG Report: Small Rural Communities Bear Costly Burden of Nitrate Pollution of Tap Water
Tap water across the nation is contaminated with an agricultural pollutant linked to cancer, and the problem is worst in small communities that can least afford to fix it, according to a new EWG...
Trump’s EPA Plans to Gut Rules That Have Sharply Cut Mercury Pollution
In yet another rollback of public health protections, the Trump administration is preparing to gut a rule that has dramatically cut emissions of mercury, a toxic chemical known to harm the nervous...
Even the Trump Administration Predicts Catastrophic Rise in Global Temperatures by 2100 – and Says It’s Useless to Try to Stop It
The Trump administration, led by a president who called climate change a hoax and is gutting efforts to cut carbon emissions, predicts global temperatures will rise catastrophically by the end of the...
Food Companies, EWG Petition EPA for Stringent Limits on Glyphosate in Oats
The Environmental Working Group, joined by food and nutrition companies including MegaFood, Ben & Jerry's, Stonyfield Farm, MOM's Organic Market, Nature's Path, One Degree Organic Foods, National Co...
EPA’s Top Children’s Health Dr. Shown the Door – Will Program be Axed?
The Environmental Protection Agency's top children's health official was abruptly put on administrative leave Tuesday, which could be a prelude to shutting the office she ran. EWG said Dr. Ruth Etzel...
Trump Admin. Seeks Reversal of Court Order to Ban Pesticide That Harms Kids’ Brains
Despite a federal court order to ban a pesticide that damages children's brains, the Trump administration is stubbornly fighting to keep it legal – further evidence that the administration places the...
EWG Petitions USDA for Records on Payments to Farmers Hit by Trump’s Trade War
Environmental Working Group is seeking disclosure of details on the taxpayer-funded payments to farmers through President Trump's $12 billion bailout for growers impacted by the president's trade war.
Congress Poised to Act to Reduce Major Source of PFAS Chemicals in Drinking Water
Congressional leaders included a provision in legislation that will give commercial airports the option to switch to firefighting foams that do not include the highly toxic fluorinated chemicals known...
With New Laws, California Leads the Nation in Protecting Kids from Lead Exposure
Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law three landmark proposals to protect California's children from exposure to lead.
Dramatic Satellite Photos Reveal Impact of Hurricane Florence on North Carolina CAFOs
EPA Watchdog Slams Agency’s Failure to Address Asbestos in U.S. Schools
The Environmental Protection Agency has failed to take the required and necessary steps under federal law to protect children from the dangers of asbestos exposure in the nation's public and private...
Landmark BPA Study Finds Troubling Health Effects at FDA’s ‘Safe’ Levels
A groundbreaking new study, the first to test what happens in people immediately after they are exposed to bisphenol A, or BPA, shows that levels at which the federal government states is “safe” and...
Will Hurricane Florence Flood N.C. Factory Farms and Manure Pits?
House GOP Seeks to Scuttle Playground Bans on Glyphosate
EPA Watchdog Blasts Former Agency Chief Scott Pruitt Over Spending on Security
oday, the Environmental Protection Agency's inspector general released a scathing account of the abuses of taxpayer money by former agency head Scott Pruitt, who resigned in disgrace after a scandal...